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Night, Mother

This 2018, the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) is producing a Filipino adaptation of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ‘Night, Mother to seal their 50 years celebration. The adaptation is written by Ian Lomogo and directed by Melvin Leen (who played Chelsea in the musical comedy “Care Divas”).

The theater company hopes to tackle more intimate, emotionally complex, unsettling and provocative issues that involve the increasing complexity of modern urban life and relationships.

“Night, Mother” is a taut and fluid drama by one of America’s most talented playwrights. It won the Dramatists Guild’s prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.

Synopsis:
Domingo plays Jessie, a divorced woman suffering from epilepsy who reveals to her mother Thelma (Lara) of her plans to end her life that very evening. Over the course of 90 minutes, which happens in real time, audiences are kept glued to their seats as Thelma desperately convinces her daughter that life is still worth living.

About PETA

PETA has produced more than 400 original Filipino plays, conducted thousands of workshops and trained hundred of artists for 50 years. They are staying true to their vision of using theater as a tool for education, social change and development.